Patrick lee



(No Model.)

P. LEE.

COOKING UTBNSIL ATTACHMENT.

No. 473.399. Patented Apr. 19, 1892.

ATTORNEYS.

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Nm STATES NTI FFICE PATRICK LEE, OF BOISE CITY, IDAHO, ASSIGNOR TOHIMSELF AND GEORGE IV. DILLIE, OF SAME PLACE.

COOKlNG-UTENSIL ATTACHMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Fatent N0. 473,399, dated April19, 1892...

Application filed August 17, 1891. Serial No. 402,826. (No model.)

IZ all whom it may concern: outward the one over or out of the way ofthe Be it known that I, PATRICK LEE, of Boise other.

City, in the county of Ada and State of Idaho, By using a thumb'screwand making the haveinvented newand useful Improvements handle a yieldingone facility is afforded for 5 in Cooking-Utensil Attachments, of whichthe increasing the number of apertured plates, if

following is a full, clear, and exact descripdesired; but any othersuitable pivot instead tion. 5 of the thumb-screw, also any othersuitable This invention consists in amultiple-coverhandle, may be used,it desired. The lower like device for cooking utensils-of various one ofthe apertured plates A is or may be 10 kinds, including kettles, pots,boilers, and provided-with cut-out pendent cleats c for 'cooking orbaking pans, to be-used for steamkeeping itin a stationary position onthe vesing and cooking purposes generally, and sel it fits on or over.adapted to fit and receive down within it cook- In Fig. 1 the device isrepresented as haviug-vessels of various sizes and'kinds; also, ingitslower apertured ring A seated on a I 5 to ,act as a close cover, whendesired, .to pots, kettle or, pot G, which may contain water forkettles, boilers, and cooking or baking pans, cooking, as by steaming,and a skillet S, or it substantially as hereinafter described, and mightbe any other cooking utensil, is shown more particularly pointed out inthe claims. as seated within one of the movable apertured Reference isto ,be had to the accompanying rings or plates adapted to receive it,and to 2o drawings,'forming a p'a'rtof this specification, provide forits entry to a proper depth within in'which similar letters of referenceindicate the pot or kettle G, the other movable plate correspondingparts in all the views. (or it might be plates) is turned out of theFigure 1 represents a view in perspective of way or to one side; or thevessel S, according the attachment as applied to a kettle or pot to itssize, might be seated within the lower z 5 and as receiving a skilletfor steaming pnrapertured plate which has the largest openposes withinor through it. Fig. 2 is a plan ing in it and all the movable plates beswung view of the multiplecoverlike device deto one side; or it might.be seated within the tached,and Fig. 8' a longitudinal verticalsecuppermost movable apertured plate having tion of the same. Fig. 4 isa perspective view the smallest opening in it and only the close 30 of asimilar multiple cover-like device of rectplate B be turned to one side.angular instead of circular form as applied The object of the severalapertured plates to a rectangular-shaped lower pan or boiler. eachsucceeding one having an opening b of Referring, in the first instance,to Figs. 1, less dimensions than the one next beneath it, 2, and 3, A Arepresent anumber of circular is to accommodate different-sized cooking3 5 apertured metal plates or rings arranged one utensils in, ordinaryuse without having reabove the other and of diminishing sizes in courseto purchasing special ones. 4 an upward direction, so as to presentdiffer- If desired, the whole device may be used a cut-sized aperturesbthrough them to receive a close cover for pots, kettles, &c., by simplyand seat within and through them, respectadjusting the movable aperturedcovers over 4o ively, difierent-sized cooking-vessels. There the lowerone and movable close plate B over may be any number of thesedilferently-sized the top apertured plate. apertured plates or rings,and over them, as'a WVith this multiple-cover-like device cookcover tothe uppermost smallest-apertured iug by steaming may be done veryquickly plate, is aclose plate B. The lower plate Ais and with greatconvenience by reason of the 5 45 stationary and provided with a handle0 for adaptability of the device to seat diiferentthe purpose ofadjusting and putting the sized cooking-vessels within it and of beingwhole device on or off the utensil over which used on one and the samelower utensil. it is applied; but the other apertured plates Thedeviceis not restricted to either shape, A and close plate B arepivoted, as by shanks size, or number of plates. Fig. 4 shows it of cland a thumb-screw D, to the handle 0, so rectangular shape, with theedges of the lower as to admit of them being swung laterally plateturned down to form a rim adapted to fit over a lower boiler or pan Gand having a lidclosed aperturef in it for the introduction of water tothe pan, also having end handles g. This lower plate or lid has themovable plates A and close plate B pivoted directly to it, and

the apertures b in the stationary and mov:

" ranged independent plates, the outer ones of which are of annularconstruction and serve to receive and hold the'linner plates withinthem, inasmuch as all of said plates arenot pivoted together laterally,but detached from each other, and lie ina common plane at their topsandrequire to be manipulated when itis necessary to remove any of them forthe receplion of a cooking-vessel of size to suit by separately liftingthem out of their place'through means of a common stove-lid lifterorother special tool, which is not always convenient to find. "In myimproved cover,which is a cookingqitensil. attachment and not astove-cover, no such awkward and inconvenient manipulation is requisite,inasmuch as the plates composing my cover are not in the same plane attheir tops, do not fit onewithin the other, which makes them liable tostick, do not require a special tool to manipulate them, but may bereadily pushed to and from their places, as required, by a slidingmovement one over the other, which is readily done by reason of saidplates being arranged or mount: ed one over the other, and all being inlateral pivotal connection, as described, and all .carried by a commonhandle, which is an integral part of the whole.

Havingthus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. A multiplercover device consisting of a series of parallel aperturedplates fitted to slide one upon the other, the lowest plate having anoverhanging handle, and a pivot extending through the handle and unitingthe several plates, substantially as set forth.

2. In a multiple-cover-like device, as and for. the purposes described,the laterally-pivoted apertured plates and upper close plate, all unitedby a yielding handle and thumbscrew, where pivoted together,substantially as shown and described.

PATRICK LEE.

\Vituesses: M

G. W. DILLIE, EDGAR WILSON.

